Aspiring to Home South Asians in America

Name: Aspiring to Home South Asians in America
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ISBN: 9780804778008

ISBN-10: 0804778000

ISBN-13: 9780804778008

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bakirathi Mani

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What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together?Aspiring to Homeexamines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital.Aspiring to Homefocuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999–2009, including…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Becoming South Asian



Postcolonial Locations: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake



So Far from Home: Documenting Immigrant Lives in Knowing Her Place, Calcutta Calling, and Bangla East Side



Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at Miss India USA



The Art of Multiculturalism: Diasporadics, Desh Pardesh, and Artwallah



"Somewhere You've Never Been Before": The American Romance of Bombay Dreams


Epilogue


Notes


Works Cited


Index